26 Games Like Animal Crossing

These games like Animal Crossing offer open ended adventures where you can build your own community on PC, iPhone, iPad, Android and other platforms.

Animal Crossing is a long running game series from Nintendo that allows players to develop their own towns and villages. The series has seen many games being released for various Nintendo consoles including the Wii, DS and 3DS. As a Nintendo game the availability is limited to Nintendo controlled consoles which makes games like Animal Crossing for PC in high demand among fans (and would-be fans who don’t own a supported console).

While the Animal Crossing games vary there are a number of core elements that have stayed the same throughout the game series. This includes using human like animals as characters, seasons, holidays, activities, communication with other players, collecting and most importantly a huge amount of customisation.

Much of this customisation is centred around your character which can be customised with a variety of different accessories and clothing items. Your house has a similar level of customisation available through furniture and other decorations.

The games like Animal Crossing on this page offer other simulation games that place a high level of customisation in the hands of the player.

Adding to the growing list of mobile titles published by upjers Wonderland takes players on a unique journey to find their little sibling who has been dragged through a magical portal by shadowy creatures. The familiar elements of an Upjers title are there from the colourful design to the friendly game mechanics. Unlike the...[Read Review]

Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon takes the Harvest Moon series into the fantasy realm and features the same simulation/role playing experience that was made popular by the HM series. The game was released in November 2010 with development completed by Neverland Co. The game is actually the fourth in the game franchise...[Read Review]

In terms of chronological order Rune Factory Frontier is the third game to be released in the Rune Factory series. The game is available for the Nintendo Wii making its way to North American shores in 2009. Just like the previous games in the Rune Factory series players find themselves in a fantasy realm where they own and ...[Read Review]

Drawing inspiration from the Harvest Moon franchise Stardew Valley puts you at the centre of your own farming adventure. Using the well known as a foundation Stardew Valley takes the experience further than ever before with its own unique mechanics and superb game design which were refined throughout the games lengthy origi...[Read Review]

Rune Factory 4 continues the popular mix of farm simulation and role playing game that its predecessors set. The game is the first to be released on the Nintendo 3DS platform with a 2013 North American release. The game features some of the biggest overhauls to the Rune Factory series yet to ensure that the game is both enj...[Read Review]

Rune Factory 2 was released in North America one year after the success of the first game and continues to offer the same mixture of fantasy and Harvest Moon style gameplay as the original game did. In Rune Factory 2 players will return to the same universe as the first game but with a whole new story and characters. This t...[Read Review]

If you love the Harvest Moon series but wanted something with gameplay outside of farming simulation then you’re the target audience for Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon. As the name of the game suggests it combines the farm simulation aspects of the popular Harvest Moon and mixes in fantasy style RPG elements. In Rune ...[Read Review]

Magician’s Quest: Mysterious Times will take you on a fantasy adventure that is similar to the Animal Crossing series. The game is known as Enchanted Folk and the School of Wizardry in Europe. The game is set in a magical school where the player attempts to master all the spells needed to achieve their magic license and the...[Read Review]

Wandering Willows offers a world full of quests and wildlife where players will enchant pets, train them and much, much more. If it’s a game packed full of variety that you seek then Wandering Willows has it in spades, while packing it into a 20 something hour experience. The uniqueness of Wandering Willows makes it a game ...[Read Review]

Moving the Dragon Quest franchise into the realm of sandbox Minecraft style gameplay Dragon Quest Builders offers a uniquely satisfying adventure that bridges the RPG with the sandbox genre. Set in the same universe as the original Dragon Quest series (Alefgard) with the world inhabited by a large range of monsters and a se...[Read Review]

Gemini Lost opens with a beam of light transferring you and your friends to a mysterious world where players must pick up the pieces and find their way home. Along the way you’ll rebuild a civilization, conduct research, gather resources and keep your small community of characters happy in the Gemini Lost’s blend of t...[Read Review]

Fantasy Life packs in a huge amount of customisation, cute graphics and a large open world. With a dozen different lives (classes) that each have their own activities and quests it’s easy to get lots of replay value from the game as each life promises a unique experience. Set in the world of Reveria you’ll spend the first f...[Read Review]

Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise is the Xbox 360 exclusive sequel to the widely popular Viva Pinata. With similar gameplay but additional biomes and co-operative play the title is everything you loved plus a little extra. The game was eventually made available on Xbox One through the Rare Replay compilation. In Trouble in P...[Read Review]

Wild Season is a Kickstarter born game title that intends to take the Harvest Moon formula and add its own spin on the life simulation genre. Available for Windows and Mac players will find Wild Season succeeds in some areas while falling in short in others. Wild Season opens with players taking a break from the big city to...[Read Review]

Shepherd’s Crossing 2 is farm simulation game available on the Nintendo DS that has many similarities to the popular Harvest Moon series. Development of Shepherd’s Crossing 2 was completed by Graffiti Entertainment with a 2010 release. The game features the beautifully crafted anime inspired graphics of most other popular f...[Read Review]

Farm For Your Life is an interesting indie experience that combines zombies, farming, tower defence and even running your own restaurant into a single game experience. All of these gameplay elements are wrapped together into a cute graphical package and an affordable price that encourages gamers of all backgrounds to step i...[Read Review]

Viva Pinata turns a unique game idea into a fun sandbox simulation game with beautifully crafted graphics that can be enjoyed by all ages. Viva Pinata is published by Microsoft Game Studios and is available on PC and Xbox 360 (with spin-off games on the Nintendo DS). The focus in Viva Pinata is on designing the perfect gard...[Read Review]

Inspired by Harvest Moon, World’s Dawn offers up a colourful seaside village in need of your assistance in a social simulation game that will pull you in for over two dozen hours of gameplay. Players will immediately recognise the familiar top down graphic style as you quickly become enchanted with the Sugar Blossom V...[Read Review]

The Virtual Villagers series is a collection of life simulation games originally developed by Last Day of Work for the PC and Mac. There is also an iOS and Android version of the various games which replicate the computer versions, some of which are available for free. The current games in the Virtual Villagers series are: ...[Read Review]

A Kingdom for Keflings is predominantly a city builder with sandbox elements developed by Ninja Bee that was released on the Xbox 360 in 2008 with a PC and Xbox One release several years later. The success of this experiment between two genres also led to a sequel which featured similar fundamentals albeit on a larger sca...[Read Review]

Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning is the second game in the franchise of farming and life simulation roleplaying titles to land for the Nintendo 3DS. Opting to introduce new customisation depth to the widely praised Harvest Moon franchise you’ll otherwise experience a similar but highly polished adventure to the previo...[Read Review]

A World of Keflings is the second game in the series and builds on the original to once again combine the management and building genres successfully into a single gaming adventure. Originally launched on the Xbox 360 the game was subsequently released on Windows and Wii U. Similar to the original A World of Keflings is all...[Read Review]

MySims Kingdom is based on The Sims series but offers unique and very different gameplay to the original series making it definitely worth your consideration. The game was released in 2007 for the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS. The gameplay of the Wii and DS version are quite similar although there are a few minor differ...[Read Review]

Armed with a strange name and Nintendo exclusivity Funky Barn enters into the farming simulation genre, challenging players to build a farm of cute animals and while managing your farm economy on your handheld Nintendo device. Starting at the basics as one would expect players are given a fairly barren plot of farm land, li...[Read Review]

Happy Street will let your imagination run wild as you develop your own unique, charming, colourful and fun village from scratch. With a huge amount of decorations and activities available within the game Happy Street is one of those games that you’ll be playing again and again. In the game players will jump into the shoes ...[Read Review]

Castaway Paradise brings an Animal Crossing like experience to your mobile device with a game set on your own tropical island. From helping the animal like villagers to catching fish and planting crops there is a lot to do in this free to play experience (on mobile devices) with a paid offering on PC, Mac and consoles which...[Read Review]

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